Accessibility links
child welfare child welfare
Stories About

child welfare

Monday

States send kids to foster care and their parents the bill — often one too big to pay

Daisy Hohman was separated from her three children for 20 months when they were placed in foster care. When Hohman was reunited with her children, she received a bill of nearly $20,000 for foster care from her Minnesota county. Joseph Shapiro/NPR hide caption

toggle caption
Joseph Shapiro/NPR

The Hidden Bill For Foster Care

States send kids to foster care and their parents the bill — often one too big to pay

In every state, governments charge parents for the cost of foster care when children are taken away. When that happens, NPR found, poor parents can't make ends meet, so families are kept apart longer.

States send kids to foster care and their parents the bill — often one too big to pay

Listen · 12:05
Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1049811327/1068335076" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

Saturday

Mexican Official Tries To Move Asylum-Seekers Stuck In Tent Camps

Drying migrants clothes in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. More than 1,500 asylum-seekers are living in the tent encampment. Veronica G. Cardenas for Texas Public Radio hide caption

toggle caption
Veronica G. Cardenas for Texas Public Radio

National

Mexican Official Tries To Move Asylum-Seekers Stuck In Tent Camps

KSTX News

At one point a child welfare official threatened to take custody of the kids and families refused to let them go. "I told them I couldn't, that I wouldn't let my kid go," one woman said.

Mexican Official Tries To Move Asylum-Seekers Stuck In Tent Camps

Listen · 4:04
Transcript
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/777686672/777888028" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
  • Transcript

Tuesday

Tuesday

10 Children Living Amid Feces Were Tortured For 'Sadistic Purpose,' Police Say

Jonathan Allen and his wife, Ina Rogers, allegedly kept their 10 children in a squalid California home. Police charged Allen with torture and Rogers with neglect. Solano County Sheriff's Office via/AP hide caption

toggle caption
Solano County Sheriff's Office via/AP

The Two-Way

10 Children Living Amid Feces Were Tortured For 'Sadistic Purpose,' Police Say

Police found them living in squalor. Their parents were charged after an investigation revealed "a long and continuous history of severe physical and emotional abuse."